Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings, meaning that when they spin, they literally drag the very fabric of space and time around with them. That means nothing can sit still ...

Looking out into the Milky Way, it's possible to see all sorts of strange ... whatever sits behind them and jets of radiation ...

Stars have a life and death-cycle. Those that are about eight times more massive than the Sun explode as supernovae at the ...

The outward force from its fusion can no longer counteract the star's powerful gravity, and the star collapses in on itself.

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

Astrophysicists have developed a method to detect light echoes from black holes, potentially revolutionizing the measurement ...

The black hole lies 27,000 light-years away and has a mass about 4 million times the Sun’s mass. Credit: Space.com | footage ...

A fresh analysis of decades-old X-ray black hole jet data has revealed bright, lumpy features with mysterious speed changes.

Astronomers say they've found an "interstellar tunnel" near our solar system that potentially leads to the vicinity of other ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the Sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

Do you remember the famous images of the supermassive black holes in the centre of the galaxy M87 and our own galaxy the ...